Example sentences of "[vb past] not been for [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 2 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 3 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 4 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 5 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 6 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 8 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 9 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 10 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 11 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 12 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 13 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 14 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 15 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 16 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise . |
| 18 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 19 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 20 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 21 | ‘ He would have been , ’ said Ruth , ‘ if it had n't been for Sarah . ’ |
| 22 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 23 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |
| 25 | If it had n't been for Müller . |
| 26 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 27 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 28 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 29 | His wife , who was an invalid at the time , told the Sun ‘ If it had n't been for state benefit and my family , Jade and I would have starved . ’ |
| 30 | If it had n't been for Josie , she would n't even have been aware of it . |